For Lack of a Long View: Biden should not have run for a second term.

 

Days short of the Democratic Convention and just months away from the November election, President Biden conceded to pressure from his own party and reluctantly dropped out of the race.

Short-sightedness has been a weakness of not just Joe Biden but of the Democratic party. Barak Obama left a weak successor without a politically viable VP and huddled with unpopular and dim-witted Far Left immigration policies.

The current democratic party has no clear leadership nor competitive candidate for the 2024 presidential election and clings to mere "damage control" options to survive what seems to be a second "McGovern" disaster in front of a "red wave" that could have been prevented with a strategic view based on staying in touch with mainstream Americans.

After a disastrous debate performance, Maureen Dodd summarized the obvious, titling the current voters' options as "The Ghostly versus the Ghastly."

It was evident that Biden's entourage knew what would happen after a week of rehearsals in Camp David.

But the real problem was evident in the 2020 pick of a visibly aged Biden as the only "electable" option for the current Democratic party, which has once again -as in 1956 and 1972, become out of touch with middle America and its base, encapsulated in a progressive bubble of campus "woke" politics and unable to recognize the coming iceberg of the immigration chaos of its own making.

Like a freight train with no brakes, the Democratic party focused on blocking Trump instead of looking for a winning candidate for 2024 and 2027. It was the path of less resistance. In 2020 and 2021, Biden's shortsighted VP choice failed to address the migration avalanche. GOP governors did.

History repeats for those who can't learn from it. Much like after the '72 shellacking, Democrats will have to find a Jimmy Carter, drop progressivism, and get back to their New Deal drawing board.

Without a long-view perspective, there is no future in politics.

Republicans have already learned that. And that could also be bad news, as the party of bad ideas beats the party without ideas.